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bequeath
bequeath [Old English becwethan to speak to, address, leave by will, from be- to, about + cwethan to say]
Bequeath
Bequeath [fr. becw'than fr. cw'than, A.S., to say], to leave by will to another. The word is properly applied
Bequeathal
The act of bequeathing bequeathment bequest
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Bequeathment
The act of bequeathing or the state of being bequeathed a bequest
Bequeathable
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Bequeath
To give or leave by will to give by testament said especially of personal property
Cumulative legacies
merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often arises, whether where a testator has twice bequeathed a legacy to the same person, the legatee is entitled to both, or only one of them; in
Legacy
a general legacy, but there is a particular fund pointed out to satisfy it, as if a testator bequeath 1,000l. out of his Reduced Bank Three per Cents. And (4) Cumulative, or substitutional, when a testator by
bequest
bequest : an act of bequeathing ;also : something bequeathed : legacy de·mon·stra·tive bequest [di-mÄ n-strə-tiv-] : a bequest of a particular amount of
Annuity
3rd ed., p. 346. But although annuities which are not charged on real estate are personal estate if bequeathed or granted before 1926 to A. and his heirs, they were for the purposes of intestate succession but
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